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Original Russian Text © L.E. Grinin, 2008, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2008, Vol. 78, No. 1, pp. 42–47.

Leonid Efimovich Grinin, Dr. Sci. (Philos.), is director of the Volgograd Center for Social Research.

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Grinin, L.E. The role of the individual in history. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 78, 64–69 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331608010073

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